Current mood:
sleepy
"I walked out to where the wooden patio ended and the deck dropped off precipitously. I hugged my arms to my chest and gazed out into the startingly blue sky and the vinyards unfurling below me. There was suddenly a stark contrast between this outward beauty and my feeling of total disconnection from the world - and the people I knew. All at once, my thoughts were a jigsaw of ill-fitting pieces, and my delicate hold on sanity was beginning to buckle."
-Sidways
"Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them."
-Charle Bukowki "Strokes to Nowhere"Hot Water Music
"What was the future? The future was a solid wall not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the the guarantee that life isn't one big joke."
-Bob Dylan, Chronicles
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
amused
contemplative
I wish I'd written Sideways... what a dark corner that book is!
I know how Hemingway feels. I almost never want to kill myself first thing in the morning. :O)
And I disagree with Bukowski on love as a prejudice. We'll have to discuss this further. I feel uncomfortable with saying people love someone "more" than another. I'm not really sure why... I'll think about that.
Life is definitely a colossal joke, but played on us by whom? The punchline: no one.